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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22 , a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice.
Joseph Heller to amerykański pisarz. Znany przede wszystkim z powieści Paragraf 22. Urodził się 1 maja 1923 roku w Nowym Jorku. Zmarł na zawał serca 12 grudnia 1999 roku w East Hampton. Lata młodości. Pochodził z ubogiej żydowskiej rodziny. Od najmłodszych lat interesował się pisaniem.
27 lip 2011 · This is all a backhanded way of saying that Heller met Shirley Held, his wife of 38 years and Erica’s mother, via a dance contest at Grossinger’s. The Texas military duty does not occur until...
Heller met and married Shirley Held, also of Brooklyn, in 1945, shortly after his return from the war. She was auburn-haired, slender and vulnerable and has changed very little. A mixture of...
PERSONAL: Born May 1, 1923, in Brooklyn, NY; died of a heart attack, December 12, 1999, in East Hampton, CT; son of Isaac (a truck driver) and Lena Heller; married Shirley Held, September 3, 1945 (divorced); married Valerie Humphries, 1987; children: (first marriage) Erica Jill, Theodore Michael.
18 maj 2018 · Joseph Heller (born 1923) is a popular and respected writer whose first and best-known novel, Catch-22 (1961), is considered a classic of the post- World War II era. Presenting human existence as absurd and fragmented, this irreverent, witty novel satirizes capitalism and the military bureaucracy.
In 1986, while trying to cope with the dissolution of his 1945 marriage to the former Shirley Held, Heller noticed he had trouble swallowing, then found he could not pull a sweater over his head....
